Extension for handles



usaran STATES PATENT oFFlcE.

ARCHIBALD C. BEEMAN, OF OKLAHOMA, OKLAHOMA.

Ex'rENsIoN Fon. HANDLES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 30, 1921.

Application led October 20, 1 919. Serial No. 331,820;

.to the accompanying drawings.

The handle of the lock on the average automobile door is too small to be easily grasped and too short to afford'the leverage regluired to unlock the door.

he object, therefore, of the invention is to provide a suitable hand-hold and extension for handles of this kind.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a fragmental perspective view vshowing the door of a Ford automobile and the short handle that usually projects from the door torelease the lock.

Fig. 2 is a reproduction of Fig. .1, but with the improved hand-hold applied to the handle.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of an invertedv U-shaped filler used in the hand-hold.

Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the hand-hold, partly in section.

Fig. 5 is a side elevation of the handle, with the hand-hold in place. Like characters of re erence designate like parts in all the figures.

The numeral l0 designates an automobile door, and 11 the handle which commonly projects outward from the lock of the door.

The hand-hold 12, which may be of any suitable material, has a square hole 13 extending from itslower end well upward toward its u per end to receive the handle 11; and if desired the extreme upper end of the hand-hold may be widened into a convenient ngerhold 14.

To hold the hand-hold 12 in place on they handle 11, an inverted substantially U- shaped filler 15 of elastic strap material is provided, this filler having its arms 16 corru ated as shown.

n putting the hand-hold 12 on the handle 11, the filler 15 is first set straddle of the handle, and the hand-hold is then driven forcibly down over the handle and filler.

As the hand-hold is forced downward, it clamps the arms 16 of the filler 15 flatly against the handle 11 in opposition to the elastic force of their corrugations, so that said filler is brought'into permanent and forcible frictional .engagement with said handle and hand-hold and thereby holds the latter in place.

The following is claimed:- r

-1. A handle extension comprising a handhold disconnectible from the handle and detachably engageable therewith, and a resilient filler insertible in the hand-hold and frictionally engagin the walls thereof and adapted to, frictiona l engage over the end of the handle, the en of the hand-hold being widened to form a finger hold.

2. A handle extension comprising a handhold disconnectible from and detachably engageable over the end of the handle, and a resilient filler insertible in the hand-hold and frictionally engaging the walls thereof and adapted to frictionaly engage over the end of the handle, the end of the hand-hold being widened to form a finger hold offset from the hand-hold.

Witness my hand this 8th day of Qctober.

.ARCHIBALD o. BEEMAN. 

